Civ 7 is just a Western colonist cosplaying as other civs
Really weirds me out that no matter who you play as, Spices and Sugar etc. are considered exotic.
Even if you play as a civ that historically would start near sugar or spice, for example Indonesia, you are forced to experience the world as if that were just not true. What happened to historically accurate civ start biases?
Makes the whole experience feel like you are a western colonist who has put on the costume of another culture.
The choice to make distant lands mechanics allow other civs to start there but not human players makes the whole experience lopsided and feels way less like you are on even footing with other civs in an open world map, and more like you as a human have a special role in this world of AIs who get special spawns and are entirely excluded from certain win conditions.
Really bad game design
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/u/Nindo_99 muhammad will colonize your cute twinky butt
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As if. Firaxis would never releast Colonization nowadays (even though it kicks butt)
It might also give people weird ideas like how you can just kill your way out of a 50% tax rate
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Colonization is great. It's almost like an RPG in that your specialists are like characters. You only have so many of them, and they have character arcs where they go from fishermen/merchants/priests/whatever to soldiers when the Revolution starts
Some of them die fighting redcoats and it's like losing a companion 
Funnily enough Civ 7 seems to have borrowed Colonization's great people system
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Mine all start out as criminals
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I'd get a few converts from the local tribes as well. Hard workers.
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Civ is the game where I went "You know what, maybe Genghis Khan did have the right idea about simply burning down all the cities and killing everyone inside them just to save some time and effort"
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